Motivational Quotes

Fear

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

- Frances Moore Lappe

Best Quotes about Fear

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis De Sales, St.

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Williamson, Marianne

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People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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Fear is proof of a low born soul.

Virgil

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean